Carpeaux

American  

[kahr-poh, kar-poh] / kɑrˈpoʊ, karˈpoʊ /

noun

1. Jean Baptiste 1827–75, French sculptor.

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Example Sentences

While visiting the Musée d’Orsay, the sculpture “Les Quatre Parties du monde soutenant la sphère céleste” by the 19th century artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux transfixes me.

From New York Times

For the rest of that day, I pondered the fate of the nameless model, and how she became a subject for Carpeaux.

From New York Times

The Met exhibition, which includes about 35 objects, features two contemporary works that demonstrate the long shadow Carpeaux’s bust has cast.

From Washington Post

Kehinde Wiley’s “After La Négresse, 1872” is made of cast marble dust and resin, showing a young Black man wearing a Lakers jersey, with his head turned in the same, awkward way as the Carpeaux figure it references.

From Washington Post

It was part of a series of 250, and the overt commercialism of its reproduction references the commercial forces that drove Carpeaux to make multiples of his work.

From Washington Post